n them. She exposed the folly of the fears
which were entertained of them. She showed by her own courageous
experiments that even furious maniacs could be controlled by the
spirit of Christian love. The asylums in many of our States
to-day are noble monuments to the inestimable value of her
services.

When Miss Dix first visited the insane department of the jail in
Cambridge, to look after one miserable human being she had
chanced to hear was immured there, she little thought of the
career of benevolent effort and of high distinction as a
philanthropist that was opening before her. She went only to give
relief to a solitary sufferer. But the dejected, helpless and
wretched condition in which she found the insane there, raised
the inquiry in her mind whether it could be that the same class
of unfortunates were treated in this wise elsewhere. Such an
inquiry could not be suppressed in a heart like hers; it urged
her on to further investigation. It led to new developments of
the methods that philanthropists and scientists were advocating
in France. She came at last to feel that she had a mission to
that class of "the lost ones," and she has fulfilled it
gloriously. She has been the angel of the Lord to the insane in
almost all the States of the Union.

The Anti-Slavery cause in both England and America, owes as much
to woman as to man. If in Great Britain the suppression of the
African slave trade was commenced by men, the abolition of West
India slavery was begun by women; and it is acknowledged that
they did more than the men to accomplish the overthrow of that
system of all imaginable wickedness, which, while it endured,
stimulated the cupidity of the slave-trader, so that he
prosecuted his accursed traffic as much as ever, notwithstanding
the acts of the American Congress and the British Parliament. In
our country the most efficient, untiring laborers in the
anti-slavery cause, have from the beginning been women. Lydia
Maria Child, a lady highly distinguished among the authors of
America, was the first to publish a sizable book upon slavery.
Its very title was a pregnant one, viz, "An Appeal in behalf of
that Class of Americans called Africans." Its contents were of
great and permanent value. The publication of that volume was to